ESPN Called Out For Previously Enabling Will Cain Following Recent Election Comments

Will Cain was on ESPN for several years before leaving for greener pastures. For him greener pastures meant taking his talents to Fox News, where he could freely discuss politics without any backlash. The Mothership was being criticized for several years for being too political for a sports network.  They eventually made a mandate for their on air personalities not to discuss politics.

Now that ESPN  is done with Will Cain, that doesn’t mean they’re not still being criticized for employing him. Cain recently endorsed President Donald Trump’s repeatedly disproven claim of voter fraud. The online follow up to Cain’s comments quickly turned into ESPN getting slammed.

See his take below:

Will Cain endorses Trump's attempts to steal the election: "It is absolutely unprecedented what happened in this election. … There may not be enough evidence for a court system, but there should be enough evidence for state legislators to change their electors." pic.twitter.com/NvuCBdWv8Q

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) November 30, 2020

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Twitter immediately did its thing, calling ESPN to the carpet for ever employing Cain:

Will Cain's trash, always been trash and we didn't press ESPN enough for keeping that empty-suit racist on their airwaves FOR YEARS https://t.co/x8RChCO269

— Tyler Conway (@jtylerconway) November 30, 2020

In hindsight, ESPN choosing to keep Will Cain over Jemele Hill somehow looks EVEN worse

— Tim Baysinger (@tim_bays) November 30, 2020

Briefly overlapped with this bumpkin @willcain and each time I saw him I was genuinely surprised he had remembered how to get to the office. https://t.co/5avenpG3uk

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 30, 2020

Will Cain Who ESPN Wanted to Sign to Long Term Contract and Kept Giving Promotions to Be MAGA Voice Against Black Athletes, Says Election Was Stolen From Trump & How The US Should Be a Dictatorship; Twitter Reacts (Tweets-Vids) https://t.co/05ZSkNSKx2 via @NathanAddison24 pic.twitter.com/QvFscxLW2a

— Robert Littal BSO (@BSO) November 30, 2020

This is your reminder that Jemele Hill was forced to resign, but Will Cain had a show for years on ESPN.

— Jaimel Hemphill (@JaimelHemphill) November 30, 2020

Definitely still a bad look for ESPN.

Looks like Fox News is right where Will Cain wants to be.

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